Friday, April 3, 2009

Ferrari roar back to business in Malaysia

Ferrari looks set for a repeat of last year's Malaysian Grand Prix rebound, posting the fastest times in Friday's pre-race practice to shrug off last weekend's disappointing results in Australia.

In 2008, Ferrari finished without a point in Australia and then dominated in Malaysia.

After another pointless finish in Melbourne in F1's season opener last weekend, Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa recorded the two best times Friday to hint at another immediate comeback.

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Hamilton loses Aussie GP points

Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after the world champion and his team were judged to have provided 'misleading' evidence during a post-race stewards' hearing.

The British driver had finished fourth on the road, but was moved up a position when original third place finisher Jarno Trulli was handed a 25-second penalty for having overtaking Hamilton behind the safety car.

However, following the discovery of new evidence, believed to be radio transmissions from the Toyota and McLaren teams, the race stewards convened a fresh hearing in Malaysia to discuss the matter.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Australia Grand Prix : Button reborn as Brawn flex muscles

Just before the start of yesterday's Australian Grand Prix, as Sir Richard Branson gazed skyward, a Boeing 747 flew a demonstration run over Melbourne's Albert Park. It was a Qantas plane rather than a Virgin, but that was the last time that afternoon that anything rained on the Brawn team sponsor's parade.

Just over 90 minutes later, after a spectacular season opener, they were celebrating a one-two victory for Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello that confirmed all the fears rivals had harboured about their pace ever since the cars began testing at the beginning of the month.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Button, Brawn GP take Pole in Qualifying

The 2009 Formula One season began in Melbourne on Saturday, 28 March with Qualifying throwing up some strange results.

The lack of tyre warmers and the new slicks seemed to put everyone off their marks with almost every team taking almost three laps to get the tyres up to temperature and still going wide in turns and looking shaky in straights.

The KERS technology made its debut but it didn’t seem to make much of a difference. The controversial Diffusers did not play as large a part as it was suggested before the session.

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Underdogs to the recue

Success-starved Williams, Toyota and Formula One newcomers Brawn signalled they could be ready for breakthrough wins by dominating practice on Friday ahead of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

The presence of the three teams atop the time sheets will infuriate their rivals, some of whom are convinced their bodywork is illegal. Williams, Toyota and Brawn showed impressive pace, aided by the additional downforce created by their rear diffusers which rival teams claim are too large and infringe new aerodynamics rules. The three teams are racing under appeal this weekend, with other teams set to challenge the legality of their cars following next weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix.


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Monday, March 23, 2009

Let the Magik Begin !!!

It’s a new year and a new season….Welcome to Formula 1 Grand Prix 2009.
Ahhh…..the long days of waiting are over. Hardcore is back and what better way to start the season by introducing a host of changes for the 2009 F1 Grand Prix
Below mentioned would be a bit technical to some of you….but what the Heck…go through it…If you don’t get it, gear up for 27th March 2009 when the first race begins in Australia.


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Monday, September 8, 2008

Belgium 2008 : Cutting corner proves costly for Hamilton


Lewis Hamilton was sensationally stripped of his Belgian Grand Prix victory on Sunday as the race for the 2008 world championship was thrown wide open.

The British McLaren driver was penalised 25 seconds by the race stewards, which pushed him down to third place, for having cut a chicane in his dramatic, late tussle with world champion Kimi Raikkonen on the rain-soaked Spa track. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was promoted to race winner with Nick Heidfeld, of BMW Sauber, promoted to second place. Massa had originally finished 14sec behind Hamilton, who thought he had claimed a fifth win of the season, with Heidfeld 23sec off the pace. The decision left 23-year-old Hamilton with just a twopoint lead over Massa in the championship with only five races left.

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